Alternative Search Engines Forum

i've noticed crawler1.realnames visiting me each day for the last few days, asking for robots.txt and index.asp

i haven't registered/purchased any keywords with realnames, why would they be visiting me??

and while i'm here, any opinions on realnames please? we are a niche market scoring well with our optimised keywords on a few engines google, av, alltheweb/lycos but nowhere on others although have only just started looking at and working on SEO, so hopefully better results elsewhere as things kick-in.

Somehow, I have received a free RealNames listing corresponding to my company name. It has been active for about a year. The bot visits my site about once a month. I guess they must need a certain number of "RealNames" in their system to be viable. Sort of like a magazine giving out free subscriptions to keep their circulation up. Maybe you will receive a free RealNames subscription.